Pub Date : 2015-08-01DOI: 10.1558/POME.V16I1.20970
S. Veale
This is a book review of Marco Pasi's Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. In it, I examine the contents of the book, Pasi's arguments, and how the study of Crowley enhances out understanding of the intersection of politics and occultism.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-01DOI: 10.1558/POME.V16I1.22021
Daniel Foor
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Pub Date : 2015-07-26DOI: 10.1558/POME.V17I1-2.27747
Graham Harvey
A reflection on the development of a career partly concerned with the study of Paganisms. After indicating some ways of using a quotation from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the article considers the question of the subject matter of Pagan Studies. It connects contemporary Paganisms and other cultural phenomena (e.g. indigenous religions and animisms) and indicates the importance of respecting the hosts of our research. The second half of the article concerns the “difficult game of academia.” It offers some ideas about learning how to play, being open to serendipity, and being aware that some colleagues think different rules are important.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-26DOI: 10.1558/POME.V17I1-2.27798
Helen A. Berger
This article explores how serendipity resulted in one sociologist becoming a scholar of a minority religion of which she is not a member. As one of the early scholars of contemporary Paganism, Berger describes both its transformation in the past thirty years and her contribution to that change. She argues that contemporary Paganism, with its lack of rigid structures and use of virtual space to create a “disorganized community” with a network of interactions, learning, and sharing is an excellent venue for studying many aspects of religion, culture, and political action in late modernity
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Pub Date : 2015-07-18DOI: 10.1558/pome.v16i2.27522
C. Tully
{"title":"John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, eds., Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), 346 pp., $50.95 (paper).","authors":"C. Tully","doi":"10.1558/pome.v16i2.27522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v16i2.27522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67610341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-08DOI: 10.1558/POME.V16I2.27794
Jodie Ann Vann
{"title":"Douglas Ezzy, Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 204 pp., $112 (hardback).","authors":"Jodie Ann Vann","doi":"10.1558/POME.V16I2.27794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POME.V16I2.27794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67610415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-07-01DOI: 10.1558/POME.V16I1.20906
Jason W. Mankey
{"title":"Nevill Drury, Stealing Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 356 pp., $105 (cloth), $31.95 (paper)","authors":"Jason W. Mankey","doi":"10.1558/POME.V16I1.20906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POME.V16I1.20906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67609873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-09DOI: 10.1558/POME.V17I1-2.28296
S. Pike
From studying Pagan festivals as a graduate student to writing about Burning Man, Hare Krishna hardcore music, ecstatic dance and so-called eco-terrorists twenty years later, this essay describes my journey as an academic through what many other religious studies scholars might consider the fringe of our academic purview. In the essay I consider the ways in which the concerns that emerged in my earliest work in Pagan Studies—sacred space, the role of memory in identity construction, relationships with the more-than-human world, ritual creativity, religious freedom, childhood experience and religious improvisation—continue to be central to my scholarship over two decades later.
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Pub Date : 2015-06-08DOI: 10.1558/POME.V16I2.27815
Michelle Mueller
{"title":"S. Zohreh Kermani, Pagan Family Values: Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism (New York: New York University Press, 2013), 235 pp., $27.00 (paper).","authors":"Michelle Mueller","doi":"10.1558/POME.V16I2.27815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POME.V16I2.27815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67610499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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